After RNC, Loeffler and Collins Fully Stand with Trump’s Toxic Agenda

Across the board, Republicans’ plans put Georgians last in the middle of a global pandemic and recession

ATLANTA — Senator Kelly Loeffler and Congressman Doug Collins spent this week praising President Donald Trump’s disastrous record and reckless agenda as part of the Republican National Convention — even while they both ignored the coronavirus crisis back in Georgia. 

Today, the Democratic Party of Georgia is ready to remind Loeffler and Collins of the toxic plans they’ve signed on to:

• Gutting health care: Trump and Republicans’ dangerous anti-health care lawsuit would completely overturn the health care law and threaten coverage protections for 1.8 million Georgians with pre-existing conditions in the middle of a pandemic.

• Undermining Social Security: Trump’s previously issued executive order would undermine a key funding source for Social Security and Medicare — and Republicans’ plan to eliminate payroll taxes would lead to the Social Security Trust Fund becoming “permanently depleted by the middle of calendar year 2023” according to a new report from the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration.

• Blocking emergency unemployment relief: Republicans have opposed expanded unemployment relief, and instead backed Trump’s executive order stunt that reduced expanded unemployment benefits and could leave out-of-work Georgians with “only a three-week boost” — and “will take at least three or four weeks” to set up in Georgia.

• Failing on coronavirus response: Even as Georgia has become “among [the] worst states in the nation for new Covid-19 cases,” Republicans spent their convention downplaying the coronavirus crisis that has cost thousands of lives and left hundreds of thousands of Georgians unemployed.

• Cowering to authoritarians: Trump and his administration failed to respond to reports of Russia offering bounties to “Taliban-linked militants” to target American troops which possibly “resulted in the deaths of several U.S. service members.” And Trump even reportedly “asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election” and “signaled his approval” of China’s human rights abuses.

“Instead of standing up for Georgia, Senator Kelly Loeffler and Congressman Doug Collins have signed on to Trump’s reckless agenda,” said Alex Floyd, spokesman for the Democratic Party of Georgia. “Republicans’ plans put Georgia families last and threaten critical protections in the middle of a pandemic and a recession — but Loeffler and Collins would rather score points with the White House than look out for Georgia.”

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